Students Issue "KULaw Review" Edition
By Maury Breecher
The presses have stopped rolling and the fall issue, volume 13, issue one, of the "University of Kansas Law Review" is in the mail.
THE REVIEW is an incorporated, non-profit organization totally written, edited, and administered by selected KU law students. It is the only student run publication which has a corporate status.
The Review is composed of several lead articles written by prominent legal "names." Student work, which takes the form of "case Notes," or reviews of recent court decisions, and "Comments," or extensively researched treatments of specific areas of law supply 50 per cent of the material.
The "University of Kansas Law Review" was first published 13 years ago in October of 1952. Three issues appeared that year. In 1953-54 the Review went to its present quarterly basis.
MATERIAL ON extraordinary legal opinions of prominent legal figures, noteworthy cases of interest not covered in the main articles and items such as the annual Dean's Report," are also included.
Material for the Review is chosen by the Law Review's Board of Governors, composed of the Editor-in-Chief, two associate editors, and four "note" editors.
TEAMWORK AND responsibility are qualities learned and stressed on the Review. Senior students train Junior students on the staff. Review members revise each other's work and are always ready to advise each other. They are expected to maintain high
standards of accuracy and style, and are held responsible for meeting their own deadlines. Missing a deadline usually leads to instant dismissal.
Hundreds of hours are contributed by each individual student in their research and actual writing. They prepare an average of five or six drafts for each article submitted. Seven and eight drafts are not unheard of according to Terry Wooster, an associate-editor of the Review. High quality, conciseness, completeness, clarity, and readability are "musts."
ONLY THE BRIGHTEST, most promising first year Law students are asked to join. They belong to the top five or ten per cent of their class. During the first semester of their second year these students are placed on probation. They must maintain a 2.0 grade average and complete a case "note" suitable for publication to make the Review. Thereafter they must maintain a 1.7 grade average and turn in one major article each semester.
Experience on the Law Review is very valuable to members. "Time Magazine," in its April 24, 1964, edition said. "A Law Review job shapes a man's entire later life. .Law Review men get the country's top law jobs. ." According to "Time," this is true because the Review member learns to express legal ideas and concepts in an exact, clear style. The member's mind is sharpened by the exacting demands of accuracy, conciseness, and logical reasoning.
12 Daily Kansan Monday, November 8, 1965
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MEMBERS, ESPECIALLY editors, absorb current legal thought and develop a critical judgement on selection of subjects, and merits of a member's work.
Yale Law School Dean Eugene V. Rostow said, "Law Reviews are by far the best training any American Law School can offer. Their educational value is unmatched by anything in the Law Schools themselves."
to Baude, since the public is governed by laws which must be constantly evaluated and studied. New laws are many times enacted after original "groundbreaking" research is done by Reviews all over the country.
A THIRD PUBLIC, is the members themselves, Kansas Supreme Court Justice Claire E. Robb said ".. The Review will do more for the Law School and will influence its future more than anything else, with the possible exception of Uncle Jimmy Green."
impression anywhere.
"The LAW REVIEW is the only institution whose main purpose and responsibility is to keep the practicing lawyer informed on the significant basic developments of the law," stated Patrick Baude, Topeka third year law student.
Three publics are benefited and
served by the Law Review. The practicing lawyer and judge is the main one since there are few lawyers or judges who are able to spare the time for specific legal research.
The general public is also served by the Review, according
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